TELEGRAM TO K. A. MEKHONOSHIN

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April 24, 1919

MekhonoshinAstrakhan

Extremelystrange that yon are sending only boastful
telegrams about future victories. Discuss immediately:

first—isit not possible to accelerate the capture of
Petrovsk in order to get oil out of Grozny?

secondly—cannotthe mouth of the Ural and Guriev
be captured, in order to take oil from there? The need for
oil is desperate.

Bendall your efforts to the most rapid securing of oil,
and telegraph in detail.